Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-20

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Surgeon from Washington at .1ithsps
and OF the Belief hat the DIssess'ss
Chambers.
GEORGIA, M
The school at Tennille opened on Mon
day, Jan. 10, with siXty-Oue oupiis.
There has been some talk Of All Good
post Office, in HARRISON county, nelp3
discontinued.
Emma Jones, an insane white wOf1an
living on the Spalding county poor lara
was burned TO death Sun1ay.
Watermelon planters are making their
preparations to put in a. large crop III
Dougherty county this season.
i Al. b. Erminger, OF Macon, thinks OF
IN ablshing candy factory in Columbus.
IL is already running q large factory in
con.
Near Sugar Valley young white man
4med Ham Baugh, working at the saw
~ II OF Ward Bros, had a pile OF lumber
Iall over on him, completely covering
MN. His injuries are pronounced tatal.
apt. Duchette, OF Athens, says that by
HIk Ring two wells, at a cost OF some $500,
t water enough can be rad TO supply a
~ with 10000 Inhabitants. He saws it
bn't be necessary 10 draw pint from
reservoir to supply Athens.
81 win harris, aged about ii years. son
#Af saac Harris colored), stole a saddle
asff6m "A horse AT Athens Monday, ana tried
to sell it TO Dlr. Dan Mah0ney for 50c.
Mahoney " as satisfied tnat the saddle
was stolen, and turned VIII over to the
police.
There is an advertisement in the Rome
papers announcing The sale OF the Athens
water works in a Few days. They VIII be
sold TO pay a debt for pipiag taat is due a
foundry in Rome. Capt. Duchette, SUI
perinteDdent Of the works, says he KNOWS
nothing about it.
All the arrangements have been made
10 build second Baptist church in
Athens, across TraI! creek, In East
Athens. 1t viii be handsome modern
edltice, costing between $1,000 and "a, 900.
THIS will be great convenience TO not
only the people living across the river,
put also many from the country will
unite with 1t.
Mr. Bisnop, who lives near the paper
mill at Athens, last year made 600 gal
Ions OF grape wine, for which he finds
ready sale. One lady IN Athens made
sixty gallons from one vine, aud did not
Use up near all the fruit Mt. Wonder
lielh has rocky hillside in Athens plant
ed in scuppernon-s that will some day be
worth Il fortune to him.
a telegram was received in Augusta
Tuesday over the Western I'm on Tele-
graph wires for the Hon. James G. Blaine
and addressed to Augusta, Ga. A mes
senger carried the dispatch to all the no.
tels III the city, but could not find Mr.
Blaine. SO 1t was determined that the
Telegram was intended tor MIR. Blaine at
Augusta, Me-, and not Augusta, Ga.
Friday night Ambrose 1iurphey. OF
mil 10 4 I'm -
pocket In his bedroom while he was
asleep. Suspicion points to tramps as
the perpetrators OF the t0eft. Doubtless,
in this instance suspicion points in tine
wrong direction. as 1T is highly probabl
that the thieves knew more of Mr.. MUIR
phey's premises than ordinary transient
tramps.
Last week the directors of the High
Shoals factory met and elected younl
man named John Rodwell az bookkeeper
and j. Il. Hadaway as assistant. Mr.
Hadaway had been bookkeeper at the iac.
tory since 1915, but he was too old TO
longer undertake the arduous ana IN
creased business of bookkeeping. He is
paid a small salary by the company to
look over the books.
The scheme of building the bridge
acl oss the Oostanauia river at the foot Of
Howard Sur, ct, Rome, again comes into
prominence. 1t is rep rted that $4,000
has already been subscribed Tor mis- pur-
pose. The bridge VIII be raised 20 the
height OF the old Memphis Branch rail-
road bridge. One project Is to use a TEN
poT4ry military structure, which il il
SAID can be put up 80 as 20 withstand an
ordinary treshet.
Saturday a white man IN Madison
county named Walt simmons, got druYk
at a barroom and Was found that evening
on the roadside below Newtowu by
negro. nearly frozen 10 death. Some
gentlemen, after working on him Tor
rome time, could do nothing toward his
EesusUtauon, and plaC!GG the man IN
wagon sent him home. He died sunday
might. His death was caused by mean
liquor and exposure 10 tue cold.
The rector OF st. AthanasIus' Colored
Episcopal Church at Brunswick Sunday
evening, having forgotten his surplice,
returned to The church for il, and no
sooner touched the curtain LEADING INTO
the vestry than II blaZed up, severely
scorching his hand. lie succeeded in eN.
tinguishing the Hames without giving an
alarm. From this it will be seen thar
both the white ana colored Episcopal
Churches have had narrow escape from
hre during the week.
On Saturday night about o'clock the
dwelling house of Mrs. u. q. Bauie, near
Bankston, Monroe county, was DESTROYED
by fire. The fire was discovered in the
roof and is supposed to have caught from
sparks from the chimney. Tue house
was completely consumed, and most oi
the wearing apparel OF the family. But
Little OF the furniture was saved, aud that
In a damaged condition. The loss was
$4,000; insurance " 900. The house was
one of the best dwellings in the county.
There was a belief among the people of
ye olden time that if you built a new house
and finished 1t the owner would not live
long; but If you lett any part thereof un.
? completed you would live until il was
done. GOV. Wilson Lumkiu is said to
have had this superstition, and when he
constructed the rock house on the hill
overlooking the cemetery at Athens he
lett one window unfinished, and II so re
mains until to-day. This Is not the only
old house in Athens whose owner had
This belief.
bsst Thursday Rev. Henry Newton, a
popular ana we'll known Presbyterian
minister of Union Point, went to button
his pants, when 10 his surprise and con.
sternHLion his lett arm broke in two lust
above the elbow. An examination was
made by physician, when 10 was dis.
covered that Mr.. Newton bad tor some
time been suffering from a cancer Of the
bone, but the pain had been so slight that
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